This years annual school concert will take place on the 27th, 28th, 29th March. The concert will commence each night at 7.30p.m. Tickets can be purchased in advance through Reception. Ticket prices are as before; €10 for adults €5 for Children/OAP’s. This years show is based on excerpts of the musical West Side Story, preceeded by the annual Variety Show
Picture 1: Hazelwood College student Amy Murphy on her recent Science Fieldtrip to the Armagh Planetarium. Amy was among the group that learned about the origins of the universe.
Picture 2: Michael Stack (left) and Sophie Murphy (right), both second year students, on their recent Science Fieldtrip, at Armagh Planetarium.
Picture 3: Darragh Stack and Michael Brennan, both second years, on the Hazelwood College Science Fieldtrip.
Picture 4 Pictured are (from left to right) Orlaith Hennessey, Blaithín Matthews, Zoe Ahern, Katie Browne, Molly Kirwan, Ms. Noreen Daly, Aisling Enright, Megan Nolan at the Belfast Waterfront, during the Hazelwood College Science Fieldtrip to Belfast.
Picture 5: Hazelwood College students pictured at the Titanic Exhibition in Belfast. Pictured are (from left to right) Eugene Barrett, Colm McMahon, Eoin Enright, Cillian Shine and Michael Ryan.
Picture 6: Hazelwood College second year students pictured outside the Natural History Museum in Belfast, during their recent Science Fieldtrip to Belfast
Picture 7 Pictured are back row (Left to right) Lorna Mulqueen, Ciara O’ Callaghan, Ciara O’ Flynn, Lorna Donegan, Amy Murphy, Sophe Murphy, Edel O’ Flynn and Ms. Marie O’ Connor. Front Row (left to right) Clodagh Walsh, Eliza Reidy, Eilish Reidy, Deborah Lynch and Samantha O’Dea
Picture 8 Hazelwood College students on their Science fieldtrip to Belfast outside Belfast Zoo.
Please vote for our Transition Year Students Abigail and Grainne who are through to the regional finals of the fashion design competition Junk Kouture.
Please vote every day this week by clicking on to the ‘Voting’ button below.
This will take you to Facebook, once there click ‘Select Vote’, then select the ‘South Region’ and vote for the dress called Silver Sweetheart.
NB: You can vote every day but only once a day. Please remember to vote at home as Facebook is not accessible in school
Hazelwood College graduate Michael Keyes, who is a current University of Limerick student, is pictured here receiving a scholarship from the Stryker Company. Pictured are (from left to right) Hazelwood College Principal Mr Brendan Burke, Annette Costello, Team Lead SLMS and Training Programmes for Stryker, Michael Keyes, Professor Paul McCutcheon, Vice President (Academic) and Registrar of University of Limerick. and Siobhan Kennedy HR Business Partner for Stryker.
Hazelwood College 16 1/2 Munster Colleges Football team who emerged comprehensive winners against on a score line of 5-8 to 1-9. Back row (from left to right): Sean Madigan, Micheál Begley, Evan O’Flynn, Alex Culhane, Damien Burke, Jonathan Sheahan, Brian Buckley and James McDermott. Front Row (left to right): Evan Coleman, Luke Ryan, Cian Magner Flynn, Dean Collins, Connor McCarthy, Colin O’Brien and Darragh Lane.
Sixth Year Geography students from Hazelwood College are pictured here on their visit to the Burren region in Clare, as part of their Leaving Certificate studies. They are pictured here receiving instruction on their Geographical Investigation of the Burren. Pictured are (from left to right) Alan Mc Aree, Mariah Culloty, Padraig Aherne, Alan Cronin, Ciara Mc Carthy, Kieran Guina, Aisling Stack, John Walsh, Shane Murphy, Roisin Noonan, Lyon Lenihan, Grainne Fitzgibbon, Lorriane Morrissey, Selina Kiely, Darragh O’ Brien, Sam Long, Bridget O’ Leary, Rachel Lane and Sophie Connelly.
Hazelwood College senior cycle art students are pictured in the course of the visit to the recently. During their fieldtrip to Limerick City the group visited both the Limerick City Gallery and the Hunt Museum. Pictured are (from left to right) Leighanne Shanahan, Chloe O’Connell, Grace Morey, Alannah Matthews, Lyon Lenihan, Eleni Mckenzie, Ellie Stone, Caroline O’Flynn, Ms. Maria Curtin (Hazelwood College Art teacher), Briana O’Connor, Lynda Browne, Tony O’Shaughnessy, Eimear O’Brien, Alan McAree, Michelle McCarthy, Aisling O’Donnell, Tara O’Donnell, Kayleigh O’Brien, Cian Larkin, Louisa Dempsey, Shauna Bourke, Danielle Mulcahy, Megan Banks, Lara Grufferty, Megan Roberts, Maria Larkin, Ita Walsh and Donna Mulcahy. Missing from photograph was Mr Keith Rahilly (Hazelwood College Art teacher).
Hazelwood: 5-08
Meanscoil San Nioclás: 1-04
On 17th January 2015, the Hazelwood Senior Ladies’ Football Team were crowned Munster Champions after a tough battle with Meanscoil San Nioclás from An Rinn, Waterford. The match was played in Glanworth, Co. Cork, and heavy underfoot conditions and bitter cold proved challenging for both sides.
From the whistle, it was clear that both teams had similar intentions, and it took 12 minutes for the first score to be registered on the board, after Laura Stack finished a good passage of play from Hazelwood forwards with a point. It wasn’t long before Meanscoil levelled the score after a pointed free. Hazelwood pulled away in the next 10 minutes with points from Tara Fitzgibbon and Laura Stack, and Cliona O Callaghan found the net to give Hazelwood a five point lead. Meanscoil responded well and scored two points in reply. With 5 minutes left in the opening half, both sides were pushing for scores before half time and Hazelwood were rewarded for their efforts with a point from the left boot of Cliona O Callaghan and a goal from Emily Rose Mulcahy giving them the advantage at half time. The half time score read 2-4 to 0-3 points in favour of Hazelwood.
After being refreshed at half time, both sides took to the field for the second half. Meanscoil had a better start to this half, and began putting pressure on the Hazelwood girls. However, having failed to convert all of their chances they only scored one point in their 10 minute purple patch. Hazelwood found their feet again after points from Katie McCarthy and Tara Fitzgibbon, but Meanscoil quickly responded with a well taken goal after dividing the Hazelwood defence. This left 5 points between the sides, and Meanscoil had the crowd’s support and the momentum entering the final quarter. The Waterford side had several chances to reduce the deficit, but missed frees as well as two top drawer saves from Hazelwood goalkeeper Rebecca McGuinness prevented them from clawing their way back. Hazelwood took advantage of Meanscoil’s inaccuracy, and with 8 minutes left on the clock, Hazelwood hit 3 goals in 3 minutes to finish the game as a contest, one from Katie McCarthy and two from Laura Stack. As the Meanscoil girls’ heads dropped, Hazelwood thoughts turned to celebrations as Laura Stack pointed from play and Chloe O’Brien finished the game with a superb point after an individual run of the length of the field. When the final whistle blew Hazelwood players and supporters rejoiced, with the Munster title heading to Dromcollogher. The final score read 5-08 to 1-04.
Cliona O Callaghan was awarded Player of the Match and Jerome Casey, Munster Treasurer, presented the cup to Hazelwood Captain Ciara McCarthy. On behalf of the team, Ciara thanked referee Shaun Cronin, manager Tom Halpin, coach Moss McCarthy and assistant coach Siobhán McCarthy. This was a well-deserved win for the girls, as they trained very hard, even twice over the Christmas holidays! Hopefully more silverware will come their way throughout the year.
Scorers: Laura Stack (2-03), Cliona O’ Callaghan (1-01), Katie McCarthy (1-01), Emily Rose Mulcahy (1-00), Tara Fitzgibbon (0-02), Chloe O Brien (0-01).
Team: Rebecca McGuinness, Claire Sweeney, Ciara McCarthy, Meadbh McCarthy, Cathy Foley, Chloe O Brien, Norma O Sullivan, Bríd Flanagan, Megan Fitzgibbon, Sarah Shanahan, Tara Fitzgibbon, Cliona O Callaghan, Katie McCarthy, Laura Stack, Emily Rose Mulcahy.
Subs Used: Áine Cunningham, Ellanna Mulcahy, Briana O’ Connor, Aoife McMahon, Marie Danaher.
Subs: Donna Mulcahy, Sharon Carmody, Emma Sheehan, Sarah Sheehan, Róisín Cunningham, Ava Mullane, Laura Enright.
Picture 1: Back Row (left to right): Mr Tom Halpin, Roisin Cunningham, Sarah Sheahan, Laura Stack, Bríd Flanagan, Cathy Foley, Emma Sheehan, Sharon Carmady, Rebecca McGuinness, Claire Sweeney, Katie McCarthy, Medhb McCarthy, Cliona O’Callaghan, Norma O’Sullivan, Laura Enright, Donna Mulcahy, Moss McCarthy, holding Muiris McCarthy aloft. Front Row (left to right): Briana O’Connor, Marie Danneher, Ava Mullane, Tara Fitzgibbon, Emily Rose Mulcahy, Ellana Mulcahy, Áine Cunningham, Chloe O’Brien, Ciara McCarthy, Sarah Shanhan, Megan Fitzgibbon and Aoife McMahon
Picture 2: Pictured from left to right Ciara McCarthy, Mr Tom Halpin coach of the Hazelwood College Senior Ladies’ Football team and Sarah Shanahan.
Picture 3: Hazelwood College’s Cliona O Callaghan being presented with her Player of the Match trophy by Paul Murphy
Picture 4: Hazelwood College Senior Ladies’ Football captain Ciara McCarthy (left) being presented with the cup by Jerome Donovan
Picture 5: Pictured from left to right Hannah dePaor, captain of Mean Scoil, referee Mr Sean Cronin and Ciara McCarthy, captain of the Senior Ladies’ Football team
The first term was a very busy and what turned out to be a very successful one for the Hazelwood athletes. The season kicked off with the Munster Schools Indoor Combined Events. This event requires the athletes to compete over five events, after which their points would be tallied. Hazelwood had four athletes compete at the competition, Kevin O Leary, Laoise Bennis, Gerard O’Donnell and Alison Healy, all four athletes competed very well, all four had personal best performances; Alison got a personal best in the Hurdles in a time of 11.55 and the shot, where she threw 7.06m. This was Gerard O Donnell’s first time doing this competition, but he performed admirable, achieving personal best in the 60m hurdles (12.14 seconds) , the 800m (2:41.5) and the 200m (28.30 seconds). Kevin O’Leary was competing his first year U17 so had a stiff competition to qualify. He ran close to his personal best in the hurdles (9.25 seconds) and ran a new personal best in the 200m (27.20 seconds), the hurdles bagging him close to a massive 700points. Laoise Bennis was on form on the day and despite suffering with shin splints she got 4 personal bests out of the five events: Hurdles (10.09 seconds), shot (7.15m), high jump (1.55m) and the 800m (2:43.7 min). This fantastic performance was enough to secure her first place as Munster Champion and secured her qualification for the Irish School Combined Events Finals in Athlone IT. Despite their fantastic performances Kevin, Alison and Gerard all narrowly missed out on qualification.
Laoise went on to compete in the Irish School Combined Events Finals in Atlone IT International Arena on Saturday the 15th of November. With a place on the national team for the top four places at stake, Laoise opened the completion well, reducing her personal best over the hurdles to 9.93 seconds. Next up was the shot putt where she had a solid throw of 7m. However, issues with her run-up on the long jump meant she only got 4.39m with 2 foul jumps close to 5m. A consistent jump in the high jump of 1.54m meant that she was going into the 800m in fifth place and a real chance of getting onto the national team. But some fantastic runs from her competitors meant that she finished in eighth place. Despite her narrow miss, it was a fantastic achievement.
Among the most impressive results of the first term were those of Noelle Lenihan, who competed in the Cork and Waterford para game. Noelle competed in the shot putt, discus and javelin, winning gold in all events. The most impressive aspect about her in that the games are open to all ages and, as 15 year old, she had to compete against adults to secure her medals. Noelle is now waiting for classification to be able to compete in further para games, with the possibility of making the national team and representing Ireland in international competition.
On the 21st of October, a group of 38 Hazelwood athletes travelled to Fota Wildlife Park to compete in the Munster Schools Orienteering League. This was the first time that Hazelwood had competed at the competition, so much was learned by many of those competing. Hazelwood’s best finishers, on what turned out to be an extremely wet and windy day, were Amy O Sullivan and Rosin Normoyle who did fantastically to finish in seventh and eighth places respectively in the First Year Girls’ Competition. Cory Knipe and Douglas Woolam came in fourteenth and fifteenth place in the Second Year Boys’ Competition. Hazelwood’s athletes faced crowded fields, manned by more experienced athletes, so this was an excellent result for compete beginners and bodes well for future orienteering events.
With an action packed first term packed with some fantastic performances, the second term look promising. This term we have the cross country, outdoor schools and more orienteering action.
Watch this space.
Picture 2: The Hazelwood College team who participated in the Munster Schools’ Indoor Combined Events. Pictured are (left to right) Alison Healy, Laoise Bennis, Kevin O’Leary and Gerard O’Donnell.
Picture 3: Hazelwood College’s Noelle Lenihan with the three gold medals she won in the Paralympic Games Cork Regional Final and the three medals she won in the Paralympic Munster Finals, which she won for Discus, Shot Putt and Javelin.
Picture 4: Hazelwood College’s Athletics team which travelled to Fota Wildlife Park to compete in the Munster Schools’ Orienteering League. Hazelwood College students Amy O’Sullivan and Rosin Normoyle came seventh and eighth respectively in the First Year Girls’ Competition while Corey Knipe and Douglas Woolam came fourteenth and fifteenth respectively in the Second Year Boys’ Competition
Recently, Desmond College and Hazelwood College played an exciting first year basketball match in the County Limerick First Year Girls’ Basketball Competition. Desmond began with a flying start, with Breda Magner scoring twice for Desmond. However, in the second quarter, the home side took off with 2 points each by Sarah Enright and Ellen Reidy, 4 points by Chloe Farrell and 6 points by Evelyne Mancassolla which included perhaps the best baskets of the day.
In the third quarter Hazelwood continued to keep the pace with 4 points each by Rachel Doody and Ciara McCarthy. This was teamed with excellent defence by the rest of the girls. But Desmond kept Hazelwood within reach, thanks to a superb defence and Latina Massey scoring 2 points for the visitors. The final quarter was concluded with three wonderful baskets by Hazelwood’s Chloe Farrell, Sinead Wright and Melissa Duggan. Unfortunately for Desmond, they were outplayed on the day, with a final score of 29-06 to Hazelwood College.
Referee on the day was Ellen Condon. Hazelwood College’s coaches were Ali Purcell and Ms Noreen Daly. Desmond College’s coaches were Catherine Creed and Sarah O’Grady. Score and Time keepers on the day were Grainne Ahern and Dwayne Sheehan.
By: Grainne Ahern and Dwayne Sheehan TY.
The Hazelwood College First Year Girls’ Basketball team who recently defeated Desmond College. Pictured are (left to right) Back Row: Ellen Reidy, Elaine Kennedy, Sinead Wright, Chloe Farrell, Lauren O’Brien and Aisling Shanahan. Front Row: Sarah Enright, Rachel Doody, Ciara McCarthy, Niamh Mullins, Emma Healy, Evelyne Mancassolla, Áine O’Sullivan and Melissa Duggan.